There are only a few days left of Dr. Jill Biden’s tenure as the First Lady of the United States. And for one of her last engagements at the White House, she chose to rewear a custom Schiaparelli design by the house’s creative director Daniel Roseberry.
On January 17 for Joining Forces, a White House initiative that supports families and caregivers of veterans and service members that Biden founded with Michelle Obama, she wore a red knee-length skirt suit with a curved waist, secured with alternating gold and silver bijoux buttons that are stamped with the house’s familiar designs and its surrealist eye closures. She paired it with simple gold jewelry and matching red pointed pumps.
Biden last wore the custom suit in 2023 to meet France’s first lady Brigitte Macron in Paris, worn with black Dior heels. The previous year, she wore the suit to meet Queen Letizia of Spain in Madrid, styling it with nude Valentino slingback pumps and a Cartier Panthère watch.
Biden has often turned to Roseberry, the Paris-based American designer, for event and occasion wear. For an official state dinner hosted by France’s president Emmanuel Macron at the Palais de l’Elysée in Paris last year, Biden wore a custom column bustier dress in midnight blue silk velvet, with an ivory ‘peau de soie’ satin sash and flowing train. Her sartorial allegiance to such brands reflects subtle political inflections and patriotism: Roseberry’s Schiaparelli, as America’s strong and storied international presence and show of true craft, and Maria Grazia Chiuri’s feminist narrative for Dior.
The first lady will accompany her husband Joe Biden to Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday January 20. The president-elect did not attend Biden’s inauguration in January 2021.
